Italy is the new president of ICOM International: Emma Nardi will serve until 2025

Italy is the new president of ICOM International: Emma Nardi was in fact elected with 450 votes in favor and 68 blank ballots as part of ICOM International’s 37th Ordinary General Assembly in Prague. She will hold office from 2022 to 2025.

The Italian National Committee thanks Alberto Garlandini for his commitment and dedication to leading ICOM International in particularly difficult years for the organization and the world at large, and wishes Emma Nardi well in her work, making herself available to support the important challenges facing the world museum community in the next three years.

A graduate in Humanities with a specialization in French Art and Literature, from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Emma Nardi enrolled again after a few years at the University “La Sapienza” to study Sociology since she wished to specialize in methods of inquiry. She is already a full professor of Museum Didactics at the Faculty of Education of the Roma Tre University in Rome. As part of her institutional duties at the University, she was a founding member of the Laboratory of Experimental Pedagogy; founder and head of the Museum Didactic Center, the first one created in Italy; director of the advanced distance master’s degree in General and Museum Didactics; and director of the second-level master’s degree in Cultural Mediation and Museum Didactics: she designed and developed both the courses that, year after year, were completed by hundreds of museum professionals and the teachers who wanted to use museums as a teaching tool; director of the OFOSS Interdepartmental Center vicariate (for employment, training and social development); member of the University Evaluation Unit; visiting professor for the Doctorate in Museum Didactics at the University of Milan Bicocca and the University of Foggia. She was also editor-in-chief of Cadmo. Giornale italiano di Pedagogia sperimentale: an international journal of educational research, publishing numerous articles on museum didactics in Italian, English, French and Spanish; president of the Association for Educational Assessment-Europe; and director of the International Doctoral School “Culture, Education, Communication.”

Throughout her career Emma Nardi has worked with museums and exhibition centers to develop projects related to museum education and strategies to improve interest and educational learning outcomes in museums. She has developed fruitful collaboration between universities, schools, and museums. In Rome in particular, he has collaborated with the Rome Museum of Palazzo Braschi, the National Roman Museum, the National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Scuderie del Quirinale. The results of her research have also been presented at numerous museums and universities in Italy and abroad, particularly at the École du Louvre and the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris.

She has become a member of the ICOM Committee on Education and Cultural Action (CECA) since she founded the Center for Museum Education at Roma Tre University. The board of CECA entrusted her with the responsibility for Europe. Emma then built a network of European representatives and, with private funding, organized three meetings in Rome, Salerno and Terni to agree on a common policy. This gave rise to the idea of a questionnaire addressed to European members of the CECA. The results of the questionnaire showed that members needed examples of best practices in museum education. Therefore Emma, with the invaluable help of Marie-Clarté O’Neill and Colette Dufresne Tassé, established the Best Practice Award. In 2007 Emma was elected president of the ECSC and served for two terms (2007-2013).

In 2015 she was elected for the first time as an ordinary member of the Governing Council. A few months later, when the elected treasurer was appointed director-general, she became treasurer of ICOM. In 2021, she stepped down as treasurer but continued to serve as chair of the Standing Committee on Resource Allocation (SAREC), launching outreach projects that demonstrated how members were more eager to participate in large projects than the usual regular projects.

She participated in international projects, including the OECD-PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) project,the IEA-PIRLS (Primary International Reading Literacy Study), and was national coordinator for Italy in many Socrates and Leonardo projects on evaluation in distance learning and museum education proposals.

Italy is the new president of ICOM International: Emma Nardi will serve until 2025

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